A ROADMAP TO THE PHILIPPINES

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A ROADMAP TO THE PHILIPPINES FUTURE TOWARDS A
KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY
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• We are entering a new age, an age of knowledge,
  in which the key strategic resource necessary for
  prosperity has become knowledge itself educated
  people, their ideas and innovation, and their
  entrepreneurial spirit.
• (Bloch, 1988)

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• Regions must create and sustain a highly educated
  and innovative workforce and the capacity to
  generate and apply new knowledge, supported
  through policies and investments in developing
  human capital, technological innovation and
  entrepreneurial skills.

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PILLARS OF KBE

• Knowledge becomes the key engine of economic
  growth.
• Knowledge economy is one where knowledge is
  acquired, created, disseminated and applied to
  enhance economic development.

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KNOWLEDGE- DRIVEN DEVT PROCESS (World Bank)

• An educated and skilled labor force
• A modern and adequate information infrastructure
• An effective innovation system
• Countrys overall business and governance
  framework which determine the flow of investment
  in the first three factors.

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PURSUING THE FOUR PILLARS OF KBE

• Primary to building a KBE is the need to
  strengthen education to produce a skilled
  workforce.
• National Science and Technology Plan (NSTP)
  2002-2020
• Action Plans on Science and Technology (ST) and
  Research and Development (RD)
• Establishment of Networks, including ICT
  infrastructure and social networks.
• Implementation of policies and regulatory
  frameworks towards a KBE.

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Transforming the Philippines Into KBE

• A STRATEGIC ROADMAPPING

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Transformation Into KBE

• Started 2 decades ago when the country
  experienced chronic foreign exchange and debt
  crisis
• Road to KBE is not an easy task. Pushing for this
  might be an answer to the long-running problems
  of the country of issues on poverty.

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• The Philippines marches towards the realization
  of a developed economy hinged on the critical
  interface among the 4 pillars of the knowledge
  economy framework
• Education for a skilled workforce
• ST Innovation
• ICT infrastructure
• Policy and Regulatory Environment

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THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATION SYSTEM
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• Education System includes formal and non-formal
  education
• English is the primary medium of instruction in
  all levels, both in private and public learning
  institutions
• Formal education is a sequential progression of
  academic schooling at 3 levels elementary,
  secondary and tertiary/ higher education.

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• 1st Level/ Elementary or Primary Education
  (compulsory six grades Grades 1-6) age group
  6-12
• Secondary Education (2nd level of the system)
  age group 13-17, prerequisite elementary
  education
• Tertiary or Higher Education (3rd level)
  Collegiate, Masters and Doctorate degree/ post
  secondary schooling leading to 1, 2, or 3rd year
  non degree technical or vocational course

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• is an organized learning activity aimed at
  attaining a set of objectives outside the
  established formal system intended for a
  particular clientele, especially the out of
  school youth or adult illiterates who cannot
  avail themselves of the formal education.
• Courses are skills-oriented and range from 6-10
  months.

Alternative Learning System (ALS) or Non Formal
Education (NFE)
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• Administration of the education system in the
  country is trifocalized (3 different agencies man
  the 3 education levels of the system)
• Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
• responsible for higher education
• Technical Education and Skills Development
  (TESDA) mandated to administer the post
  secondary middle-level manpower training and
  development
• Department of Education (DepEd)
• - mandated to focus on basic education (covers
  elementary, secondary and non-formal basic
  education)

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MANAGEMENT OF A TRIFOCALIZED EDUCATION SYSTEM
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HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
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Commission on Higher Education

• The governing body of both public and private
  higher education institutions.
• Higher education system in the Philippines
  consists of 1,726 colleges and universities (AY
  2007-2008)
• 1,222 private non-sectarian HEIs
• 301 private sectarian
• 203 public HEIs (110 SUCs / 77 LCUs/ 16 special
  government schools PMA and Local Government
  Academy) - 12 private HEIs

88 private HEIs
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Commission on Higher Education

• Universities 186 HEIs (11)
• Public 64 (46 SU/ 18 LU) (34)
• Private 122 (89 Non Secretarian/ 13
  Secretarian) ( 66)
• Colleges 1,540 HEIs (89)
• Public 139 (64 SC/ 59 LC/ 16 OGS) (9)
• Private 1401 (1,133 Non Secretarian/ 268
  Secretarian) ( 91)
• Note satellite campuses not included (total
  no. of satellite campuses 334
• (SU satellite campuses 226 and SC
  satellite campuses 108)

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• Enrolments in tertiary continuously increase each
  year.
• SY 2007-2008 enrolment reached 2,565,534 while
  for SY 2006-2007 enrolment reached 2,541,405
  registering a slight increase over the previous
  years enrolment of 2,451,238 (SY 2005-2006)
• Of this, 34 of the students enrolled are at
  public higher education institutions (PHEIs)
  while 66 are enlisted with private HEIs.

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• SY 2007-2008 projection of 491,320 graduates, SY
  2006-2007 (projection) of 473,613 graduates. For
  SY 2005-2006, there were 419,000 graduates
  produced by the higher education system
• 67 are in Business Administration and related
  disciplines, education and teacher training,
  engineering and technology, medical and allied
  disciplines.
• Highest is in the Medicine and Health-related
  programs followed by Teacher Education and
  Engineering and Technology

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Student Financial Assistance Programs

• Faculty Qualification, current proportion of
  faculty members with graduate degrees is 31 with
  Masters and 9 with PhD degrees
• In comparison, the proportion of faculty members
  in HEIs with Masters degree in 2000 was 26,
  while proportion of those with PhD degrees was 8.

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Student Financial Assistance Programs

• SY 2006-2007, CHED funding support of
  P411,204,500 (41,704 beneficiaries nationwide
  under the 16 student financial assistance
  programs (Scholarship, Grant-in-Aid and Student
  Loan Programs)

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Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency
Accreditation Program (ETEEAP)

• ETEEAP provides accreditation and equivalency of
  learning and competencies acquired outside the
  formal education system.
• The number of graduates from ETEEAP has increased
  to 1012 in SY 2006-2007 from 656 in SY 2005-2006.

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MTDPHE Strategic Framework
POVERTY REDUCTION
HIGHER EDUCATION SUBSECTORAL VISION
HRD Priority Disciplines Basic Service
Provision Market Responsive for Key Employment
Generators

• HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT THRUSTS
• Quality and Excellence
• Relevance and Responsiveness
• Access and Equity
• Efficiency and Effectiveness

Mobilizing Knowledge to Enhance Productivity

• HIGHER EDUCATION FUNCTIONS
• Human Resource Development through
• Education and Training
• Research and Extension
• Effective and Efficient Management of
• Higher Education

Anti-Corruption, Peace, Bureaucractic
Reform, Fiscal Strengthening
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Investment in Education

• Government is responding through the 3 Es-
  Economy, Environment and Education.
• Education occupies the front seat, having been
  allocated PhP200 billion (16 of the overall
  budget, removing the automatic appropriations for
  debt services then it will come up to 34)

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Progression Drop-out Rates
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KEY CHALLENGES IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAnchored on
the 3 Functions of HE

• Human Resource Development
• the urgent task to respond critically and
  strategically from both the domestic and
  international arenas (role of HE in HRD and
  priority disciplines in HE teacher education,
  health-related, cyberservices, engineering,
  agriculture and entrepreneurship and maritime)
• Research
• to be more proactive in mobilizing knowledge to
  directly contribute to productivity by
  re-orienting university-based research and
  development towards systematic and purposive
  utilization of research outputs to generate
  employment and support poverty reduction
• Extension Services
• Seize the current opportunity to assist national
  government to effect social, bureaucratic and
  fiscal reforms through HRD and effective and
  efficient management

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KEY CHALLENGES IN HIGHER EDUCATIONWithin the
Key Development Thrusts

• Quality and Excellence
• Higher education and regulatory framework
• Unified national qualifications framework
• Role of accreditation
• Faculty development
• Relevance and Responsiveness
• Values formation
• Graduate education
• Access and Equity
• The UNQF, Ladderization and ETEEAP
• Financial assistance programs
• Efficiency and Effectiveness
• Regional state university system
• Typology
• Direct channeling of government subsidy for
  students
• Normative financing

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DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Policies, Strategies, Programs and Activities

• Improve contribution to poverty reduction through
  HRD
• Broaden access
• Address quantitative mismatch
• Address qualitative mismatch
• Improve contribution to knowledge mobilization to
  enhance productivity through HRD, research and
  extension
• Promote higher education research for regional
  government
• Strengthen graduate education
• Promote and support research output utilization
• Promote, facilitate and sustain partnership
  between HEIs and industrial entities for research
  and extension projects

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DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Policies, Strategies, Programs and Activities

• Support and contribute to anti-corruption, peace
  process, bureaucratic reform and fiscal
  strengthening
• Integrate values formation
• Promote integration of indigenous communities
• Support integration of Madaris into mainstream HE
• Strengthen income-generating capacities of SUCs
• Rationalize the structure, programs and fees in
  HEIs
• Rationalize public HEIs through the
  implementation of normative financing formula
• Improve HE policy framework and governance system
• Rationalize the utilization of the HE development
  fund

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REFERENCE

• THE PHILIPPINE MAIN EDUCATION HIGHWAY TOWARDS A
  KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY (2008)
• Published by the Presidential Task Force for
  Education and the Office of the Presidential
  Assistant for Education
• A ROADMAP TO QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION A NEW
  PHILIPPINE EDUCATION HIGHWAY (2009)
• MEDIUM-TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
  2005-2010

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